Collections & Anthologies

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....

Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....

The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth....

Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....

Discover the wisdom and wonder of poetry through candid conversations with some of the most powerful poets of the 21st century.

In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.

Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....

A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....

These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....

For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world....

This special audio collection features some of Poe's best-known stories....

In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's "If" was voted number one....

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....

"100 Best-Loved Poems" is a cherished anthology that brings together some of the most timeless and evocative works of poetry in the English language.

With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...

101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language....

From misting of the eyes, through soft drizzles on cheek to cascades that would put Niagara falls to shame the event of tears comes in all shapes and sizes.

John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life….

'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection The Complete...

Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....

This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....

In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout....

You have been looking for this book for quite some time. Pick it up to begin a journey into the deepest depths of the human psyche and the darkest corners of the imagination....

Do men need poems? Is the gender of brawn and ‘can-do’ really a candidate for honeyed verse? Obviously yes. Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure. They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved....

A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....

This collection includes favorite English-language poems by 178 favorite authors, beginning with Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke in Elizabethan times, and ending with T. S. Eliot and Marianne Moore in the twentieth century. Cavaliers and Puritans, a famous king and a pilloried criminal, soulful lovers and sharp-witted satirists, Shakespeare and Jonson, Milton and Marvell, David Garrick and Rabindranath Tagore, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Christina Rossetti—all are here, in one constantly changing kaleidoscope of brilliant verse.

Discover the wisdom and wonder of poetry through candid conversations with some of the most powerful poets of the 21st century. In this remarkable collection, Ben Palpant, author of Letters from The Mountain, invites listeners into intimate, one-on-one interviews with seventeen acclaimed poets.

Содержание: «В ночи, когда уснет тревога…» «Сумерки, сумерки вешние…» «Недосказанной речи тревогу…» «Ужасен холод вечеров…» «В туманах, над сверканьем рос…» «Девушка пела в церковном хоре…» Незнакомка Балаган Второе крещенье «Ушла. Но гиацинты ждали…» «О, весна без конца и без краю…» «И я любил. И я изведал…» Поэты «Она, как прежде, захотела…» Россия «Я пригвожден к трактирной стойке…» Осенний день Сиена «Кольцо существованья тесно…» На железной дороге Авиатор «Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека…» К музе Художник «Как растет тревога к ночи!..» «О, нет!

Содержание: «До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья…» «Там, где капустные грядки…» «За горами, за желтыми долами…» «Дымом половодье…» «Край любимый! Сердцу снятся…» «Я пастух, мои палаты…» «В том краю, где желтая крапива…» «О край дождей и непогоды…» «Не напрасно дули ветры…» Корова «Весна на радость не похожа…» «Гляну в поле, гляну в небо…» «Вот оно, глупое счастье…» «Я последний поэт деревни…» «Устал я жить в родном краю…» «Все живое особой метой…» Не ругайтесь! Такое дело! «Не жалею, не зову, не плачу…» «Я обманывать себя не стану…» «Да! Теперь – решено. Без возврата…» «Сыпь, гармоника.

This book is an ideal drinking companion for any fan of real ale, craft beers and the traditional British pub. Dipping into the literary barrels of the past five hundred years, this anthology delivers a heady brew of poems, prose passages and quotations in praise of real ale from writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Johnson, Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Burns.